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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

ROME IS BURNING

Yesterday, in the House of Representativesleadership all around was sorely lacking.The ship of state is on fire, and the politicians fiddled. The United Statesis in financial crisis, and our leaders areunable to explain it to the citizens. Therewere a few who joined the "yes" vote, inspite of heavy opposition in their districts.Amazingly, they both are Republicans. One isin Las Vegas and the other is in rural Georgia.Contrast these leaders to Cong. woman MarcyKaptur of Toledo. She bailed out, much likeJohn McCain bailed out on the Letterman Showthe other night. A 'no' vote is a vote ofstupidity. The national interest is at stake,and there was no "country first" attitude among these negative legislators.

Yesterday, the world showed what is possiblewith continued non-action. Financial marketsacross the world lost. The loss on the NYSEwas $1.2 TRILLION. I can visualize these naysayers jumping with joy, slapping themselveson the back, saying we showed Wall Street.The real story, however, is that the losswill show up in lost jobs for the middleclassand the lower classes. Marcy is known as a union representative, yet her vote demonstrateda lack of understanding of the real consequences.The loss of $1.2T is $500 BILLION more than theproposed $700 Billion job preservation bill in the House of Representatives. Not only arelarge numbers of jobs at stake, but also our401K retirement accounts are sharply down.Long term, the dollar is destroyed.

Marcy and her naysayers made no positive pitchto solve the problem. While there is blame allaround from the Bush Adm, to Cong Frank, toSenate, and to the media, it was the Republicanswho defeated the Bill. All these negativeRepublicans said it was "socialism". They areideologues; and they are off the reservation.They have trashed the USA momentarily. As Ipointed out above, there were a couple of Republicanswho crossed over.

What the vote also shows is what has been commentedon here a number of times, that is, there is a newRepublican Party. The former Republican Party wasthat of Wall Street. The new Republican Party isthat of idealogues and partisans who believe inindividual responsibility to the extreme, in privateproperty per se, and see socialism in any governmentassistance to any group. These Republicans would see"Rome Burn" than take measures to put the fire out.They would let Wall Street fail. Ron Paul took thefloor yesterday and basically said that. He is seriouslywrong.

However, even with these off the reservation Republicans,the Democrats could have passed the Bill. 95 Demsvoted against the Bill, and only 13 needed to pass thelegislation. Hopefully, the Democratic leadership willconvince 13 to change their vote when it comes up again for a vote on Thursday or Friday. What a travesty thatthis political game has to be played, as Rome burns!

Don't Toledoans see what a flake Marcy is? Are they soblindsided that no matter what she does, no matter howmuch she hurts the USA, she is a Democrat and she has myvote. What's that definition of insanity? The worldwon't come to an end if she is defeated. More important,is the integrity of the individual. How does one nowvote for a person that puts her country at risk? Amessage is sent by lowering her re-election vote. Hopefully, even a phone call to her office today would bein order. Yeah, I can vent too, lol....

Finally, today the talking heads on "Joe" are saying thatit was Frank and Pelosi who defeated the Bill by attckingRepublicans in the final summation. Hogwash! These nayRepublicans are idealogues and only using Pelosi as cover.These Republicans did not change their vote because they are mad at Pelosi. Huh? Screw the country because of Pelosi?The point is, they all know Pelosi and Frank and have itheard it all before. Congress is not a vacuum. When theRepublicans were in control they did the same. Democratswere unamerican, secularist, unpatriotic, and dangerouspeople. Boehner and Republican leadership knew these werenay votes, yet they play partisanship to try and say itwas. I just heard "Joe" chime in with "this is an EconomicPearl Harbor". Yikes, my thunder was just taken by a talkinghead of "Joe" who said "the die was cast before the vote."Well, here I sit, and there he is, lol....

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